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 What happened when FLOW is interrupted with images such as anger, pain, physical and mental imbalance, fear, tiredness, worry, expectancy, uncertainty, vulnerability, sensitivity, when you are not able to express your feelings in a way you want, when you feel so stuck in one part of the body and you just can not move? Is there still a flow? Is it possible to embodied that emotion? yes, of course, we just need to find a deeper understanding of what is happening in our body, have a deeper reflection and work on our possibilities... Last night we had an interesting research around above mentioned theme and I must admit that was very captivating research, cause it was all about vulnerability and very strong and intimate moment. It should be maybe the most creative phase but like I mentioned in the beginning of the research we are armed with curiosity, ongoing questioning and with non judgemental eyes. We were open to every possibility could happen and appear so I should say this sessi...

 It looks how Fridays are reserved for the face to face session and that is great opportunity to enter deeper into the process, into practitioner's practice and mine too. This research I dedicated to the sense, silence exploration, sound in the body and dynamic motionless. So, how is possible work on sound and flow if we remain in silence and stillness? I was using concept of Continuum practice, a demonstration of sending sound into the body parts using vocals A+O+M+Žlj in sitting and lying position and I+U+Br in standing position blending with chi quong principles of the movement and working on personal energy. I was using deliberately those vocals and consonants to show how we can play with the sound with or without a tongue. That is something I should really deepen in my further practices. It was very enjoying to play with that body part and producing the song with the whole body as an instrument. Me and my valuable somatic researcher were trying to introduce, evoke, awake all s...

Last Tuesday three girls, lovely somatic researchers explored the movement and fluidity blended with touch and the breath. It was really lovely to see how the exploration is going. In the beginning it was from some reason difficult to tune in and really become intimate with the body parts, environment around us and the objects, but slowly the researchers found their own way how to feel comfortable with themselves and the objects, and how to work again on inner connectivity and outer expressivity and try to achieve a lively interplay between us, others on the zoom, body, its limbs and friendly and warm witnesses in their space, such as dog, cat, or other person. This class was about embodied listening through movement and touch, calming the nervous system and working on neutrality (seeing, understanding, waiting, breathing, being in silence).  On this class we were exploring also the details of touch, how to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, how to dance from the body li...

 Tonight I felt a bit discouraged discussed, shared thoughts, engaged in discussion, whatever we call this type of gathering. I must say, it was again very informative and useful. I have to say also that this Module I feel very overloaded with information and put every data in the right box. I am aware that we are just scratching the surface and this is just a journey, etc,  and yes I am enjoying and going through different landscapes but still I really want this journey end well and in a qualitative way, cause in the end, my methodology is driven by qualitative aspect of the research. I am combining action research and grounded theory so participants could continue to review, evaluate, request and improve practice either just keep questioning and examine the findings of participant observation and then proceeds to the analysis of those findings before any other data are collected. I will also involve reflective autobiography and interpretation of personal experience with the ...

 Last Friday I scratched the surface of another phase and I have got ,thanks to (this time) only one (with the dog Bounty) but still very playful and creative participant, new ideas around this theme. We were exploring how to being open and how to enter to the spine, how to think spiral and how to stretch the time rather then think about how to stretch the muscles. These thoughts led us to the question how long can we stay in the moment, what is needed to stay longer in the posture and how to stop the time. I am here very interested in stretching the time, enjoying the nowness, enjoying the posture, breathe into that part of the body, rather then rushing  (which is still delicate part for me, cause i love being fast and very quick in the changing the movement) but still that was very short time to explore everything around this subject.  Here we were exploring sensing as a mental factor which corresponds to time as a motion factor. We continued to work on head and ta...

 Soo..phase 2 DONE! and we are definitely floating to the depth:) This Tuesday, the dialogue was the key skill in reflection whether with oneself or with others. This required the human in his WHOLENESS wholly attending to the experience of flow. Laban implies propulsion, impetus, inner impulse to move, which encompass many nuances such as feeling of lightness, a strong, firm movement, a spatial direction of straight, direct movement or opening outwards. We were also using very slow, gliding movement and using idea of muscles. We explored different landscape of muscles, how we can move from the pelvis in natural and organic way, adding a bit of walk, jump, sway, stop and crawl and still stayed in fluid state of mind. The purpose was still the same to enjoy the movement, using visualization and using breath support all the time during the session. We were exploring together different landscapes, rhythm (dancing with the music, against the music and independently of the music) and la...

 Last night we had a vivid conversation about the theory and the framework and some of the participants see a framework through visualization, like a spider web, or the house, as a source, as a body.. With a clear thoughts, critical reflection, thinking, observing, reading we need to find a starting point. The beginnings are very important and always difficult but slowly when we take a stand, making a choice about particular perspective, methodology, we could use the way we see and understand the world, experience the world, gather information about particular objects, using reflection, without making assumption, being open-minded to other theories  and being authentic, building awareness and good foundation for the framework so the framework could serve to the purpose, and so on.   So, we could say especially in phase 1 that theoretical framework is really important for our academic growth cause it is what we carry information, knowledge, learning within us, with us...

 https://www.ted.com/talks/es_devlin_mind_blowing_stage_sculptures_that_fuse_music_and_technology  After amazing  Es Devlin's talk about mind-blowing stage sculptors, I really took some time to think about what we ALL kind of artists are doing for the better world. Es reminds us of great work beginning with ideas. As she said the beginning is really important, it is delicate part, it feels every atom of air, before the show (everything) starts. I am delighted how she is explaining her call and what is really being sculpted is the EXPERIENCE of the audience, and after the show that thing is only important. When everything is gone, when show is finished and everybody goes to their home, the show, work of the artists endures in their memories, in sculptures, in performances, pieces.. We are alive as artists because of that...in the mind of those who were once present in the audience. The audience anticipation is matter!! and that is the beauty of every artist's work, I shoul...

 My body is the fabric into which all objects are woven,  and it is, at least in relation to the perceived world, the general instrument of my “comprehension”| Meraleau-Ponty referring to the body as expression. 

 Introduction into the flow, phase 1.  Last night I began my practical online movement research EMBODIED FLOW IN MOTION, first phase.  At this class we made an introduction into the inner body and the Self, breath, intro into the flow motion and dancing from within. We started very slow, with micromovements and microcosmic energy, breath support and some concepts from the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System, Alexander and Feldenkrais through Improvisational tasks and mindful movement. I was searching for the quality and understanding the information I shared with the participants. We started from observing the head and the neck motion... The start is always difficult and hard to tune in into the floating zone, especially when you are dealing for the first time with yourself,  a lot of time, maybe not enough space to express yourself in a way you want to, but the participants were enter the flow immediately in their own tempo according to their emotional state, space the...

 Today we had an online session about what is the PURPOSE in writing academic essays in art?  Many profound answers has been highlighted and found myself in some of them. My purpose for writing, academically writing essays is embody practical knowledge, experiences into the word. Through experimental writing I completely want to articulate what I am doing in my practice, explain how to develop my practice, making reflection on my work and critically observe how I am 'feeling' on that field, that means that I want to give to the reader an explanation about some somatic understanding for my research, how much I am engaged in those ideas of exploration and something about the context I am referring to. Expressing ideas academically, structurally, on philosophical basis by observing, reflecting practice about myself and the others makes my experience much worth it. In TED talks Walter Hood talked about how great things happen when we exist in each other world, I would add that gre...